Venezuela's deadly fuel crisis | DW REV

Venezuela has the world’s largest crude oil reserves. But decaying infrastructure means it has to import fuel from Iran, and the poor quality of this fuel can cause vehicles to overheat and catch fire or even explode. US sanctions have further crippled the country's economy.

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[AnnMitt]

What a damn shame. Corrupt government makes life incredibly difficult for citizens.

[jamilmukhtar]

Going through the same thing in Nigeria. Matter of fact we have been having gas issues for as long as I can remember. The queues fluctuate but the quality of the fuel is still poor.

We have the crude yet we export it to be refined and the buy it back to consume, doesn't make any sense. Worse is we have refineries that have been left to rot. Every year money is set out to fix the refineries but 20 years later, they are still being "fixed".

Recently Dangote, a wealthy business man, used his own money to build his refinery, it is working but people in the government are actively trying to sabotage it and I believe I don't have to mention why. Truly sad

[suspiciousafternoon]

what an irony. corruption ruins everything

[stephenduffy]

Older model, entry-level Chevrolets don't age very well regardless. Poor woman.

[nasimbanaei]

As a journalist in Iran, I know that Iran isn't exporting fuel to Venezuela at this time and is also in serious need of fuel, even importing it itself! In this report, the expert claims that there has always been doubt about Iranian fuel, and it is mentioned that the number of fuel pumps in need of repair has increased over the past 5 years or so. I think we cannot blame Iranian fuel for the explosion of cars, or at the very least, there should be more convincing proof to support this claim.

[youxkio]

Wait until China reaches Venezuela with cheap EVs. Most gas pump waiting lines will drop.

[raicaluci]

In Romania we had the same situation in the 80s.. the gasoline was rationalised.. 20 l/month per owner. The quality was poor too. On sunday there where drive restrictions.. one sunday cars with even and the next, cars with odd number on the registration plate. To mention Romania was an great oil producing and refining country

[bentwood]

Low octane fuel makes the car explode?😂

[troyspartan]

This is what happens when you don’t fight back.

[junaubomber]

Imagine getting gasoline essentially for free (for 2cents a liter), how long would the queues be, what do you think?

[jaymacpherson]

The content isn’t clear on where the petroleum was refined into gasoline. There are references to Iran providing gasoline and oil, the later of which is petroleum, not distillates such as gasoline.

[madcow]

This is one reason I'm happy about switching to an electric vehicle. My house runs on electricity, my car runs on electricity, and I have a solar panel system. It doesn't matter what happen to the grid or the gasoline infrastructure, I'm disconnected. I expect similar setups to become more common all over the world in the coming decades as solar panels are just about the cheapest energy source and electric vehicles will eventually be all that's available.

[dcassus]

Yes, we had 2 fuel shortages in Brazil that I can remember. The first was the 70's oil crisis, of course. Ethanol alcohol was developed from sugar cane as an alternate fuel (cars weren't bi-fuel then, so you either had an "alcohol" car or a gasoline one). But they sucked. Later in the 80's hyperinflation days, there was another shortage of ethanol this time due to prices being fixed and sugar cane farmers causing market shortages, so more methanol was allowed in the mix. It was highly poisonous even if you happened to smell it and could also lead to blidness. This shortage was short and the "methanol" days were over in a couple of months, IIRC. We still have ethanol around and bi-fuel cars that can handle any mix of both fuels efficiently. Ethanol is cheaper, but less efficient. Sometimes gasoline is a better bang for your buck, sometimes it's not. There are even apps and calculators for that nowadays.

[DavidSchneiderIP]

I was born in Peru and my wife and I lived many years in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Nicaragua. We only had a vehicle in Ecuador. We didn't really need it there and didn't have one in the other three countries. She should have sold her car awhile back. But a car is a status symbol.

[tokslut]

Come on! "changing the hole fuel system" Please educate yourselves, that´s just a part of the fuel system @3:55

[manuranga]

I’m from Sri Lanka . We also faced to a fuel shortage in the country due to bankruptcy due to political crisis and Terror attack

[mygillian]

this can be a place where Chinese EVs can play a big role in offering people another option for mobility

[basithpatla]

Failure of government. Even in our country, India, fuel is abundantly available despite no oil reserve. Price is approximate $ 1.20

[jonny]

We were here for 10 hours, we got here at 3am and left at 4pm.... uhh..?

[KilonBerlin]

Really sad to see in the country with over 300 billion barrels proven reserves of oil...and export of crude oil is increasing, last month (august 2024) it was at its highest since the US oil embargos started in 2018 with 885, 000 barrels per day... most (over 500kbpd) goes to china, than to the US over 200kbpd and 90kbpd from Repsol some to the US but most of that to Spain but still very low numbers compared to the decades before the oil embargo....